This past Thursday, Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and other notable books, visited Elmbrook. He offered a great message on the power of story based off of some of his experiences in converting Blue Like Jazz to a screenplay. Building off of his attendance at a Robert McKee writing seminar, Don unpacked the …
Real Beauty
Thanks to Brandon Brown, who pointed me toward some very interesting videos from the Dove Company's Campaign for Real Beauty. I thought this was worth sharing. You may also want to check out some of the other videos here.
CORE
So sorry for the long delay in updating my entries!We've kicked off The Ave downtown Milwaukee with a series on Ephesians called CORE. The first three weeks of messages are available as MP3s online, as is a study guide for the series.It's been a great beginning to things with students from UWM, Marquette, MSOE, MIAD, …
Art and the Bible
For those of you interested in the arts, I wanted to pass along the name of an old book that I recently encountered by a great Christian thinker of the 20th century. Francis Schaeffer's Art and the Bible is a brief but powerful handling of the intersection of the arts and the Christian worldview.Moving from …
Missional: Living With and For
I recently watched the movie Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche, Judie Dench, Alfred Molina, and Johnnie Depp. I watched the movie because it was mentioned in a book I've been reading called The Shaping of Things to Come. I enjoyed the movie at numerous levels: landscapes, use of color, story, imagery, acting, etc. But the reason …
Matthew Erickson 